John Bodette

Executive Editor, St. Cloud Times

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Valid Sources

Sara Brown, Ph.D.

Paula Duffy

Bruce Garrison, Ph.D.

Sig Splichal, Ph.D.

Paul Steinle

Georgiana Vines

Reporters

Sara Brown, Ph.D.

Paul Steinle

Associate Consulting Editors

Fred Brown

Sonja Sorensen Craig

Lucy Dalglish

Jack Hart, Ph.D.

Bob Hunter

Arnold Ismach, Ph.D.

Paul Janensch

Joe Kamalick

William Ketter

Connie Koenenn

Eric Newton

D.L. Richardson

James Risser

Dennis Ryerson

Robert Steele, Ph.D.

Terry Tazioli

Jim Upshaw

Tsitsi Wakhisi

Web Design

Dennis Beyer Design

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Introduction

How are newspapers doing?

Lately we’ve been hearing predictions newspapers are dying. But how does the situation look from the newspapers’ perspective?

To find out, two reporters traveled to 50 states, visiting one newspaper in each state, to report how these newspapers are recasting themselves in the digital age. The result is 50 snapshot State Reports on local newspapers, several Bonus Reports on key newspaper issues and more than 100 journalists’ epiphanies (J-Epiphanies) about what newspapers do.

“Who Needs Newspapers?” has three main goals:

Media Literacy: Clarify the unique value of local newspapers for the public;

Industry Intelligence: Provide the newspaper industry contemporary information about how change is being managed; and